Educate to Liberate: Essential Consciousness Raising Books for New Zealanders

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Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End 4.56 avg rating β€” 229 ratings
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The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers
The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers 4.30 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating β€” 30,600 ratings
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation 4.37 avg rating β€” 2,102 ratings
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The Treaty of Waitangi
The Treaty of Waitangi 4.16 avg rating β€” 83 ratings
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Nga Tama Toa: the Price of Citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945
Nga Tama Toa: the Price of Citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945 4.81 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating β€” 28,734 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating β€” 30,215 ratings
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Mau: Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppression
Mau: Samoa's struggle against New Zealand oppression 3.73 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love 4.36 avg rating β€” 27,086 ratings
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,100 ratings
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The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World 4.28 avg rating β€” 989 ratings
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Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand
Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand 4.02 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
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Honouring Our Ancestors: Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-Being
Honouring Our Ancestors: Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-Being really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century 4.45 avg rating β€” 16,558 ratings
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Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration 3.89 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β€” 285,173 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,773 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating β€” 39,723 ratings
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Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,242 ratings
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The New Zealand Wars / Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa
The New Zealand Wars / Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa 4.42 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
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Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity 4.16 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance 4.43 avg rating β€” 1,715 ratings
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The Muslim Problem: Why We're Wrong About Islam and Why It Matters
The Muslim Problem: Why We're Wrong About Islam and Why It Matters 3.68 avg rating β€” 143 ratings
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Constructing Collective Identity: A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand Jews, Maori, and Urban Papua New Guineans
Constructing Collective Identity: A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand Jews, Maori, and Urban Papua New Guineans 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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New Zealand Migration
New Zealand Migration really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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A Land of Milk and Honey?: Making Sense of Aotearoa New Zealand
A Land of Milk and Honey?: Making Sense of Aotearoa New Zealand 4.29 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Whatever It Takes: Pacific Film and John O’Shea 1948-2000
Whatever It Takes: Pacific Film and John O’Shea 1948-2000
by: John Reid
0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project 3.71 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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Becoming Pakeha
Becoming Pakeha 3.63 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Mana wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture, and politics
Mana wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture, and politics 4.47 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas)
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas) 4.48 avg rating β€” 885 ratings
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Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire
Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire 4.45 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States 4.09 avg rating β€” 822 ratings
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As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas)
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas) 4.58 avg rating β€” 1,108 ratings
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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,642 ratings
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Die Nigger Die!
Die Nigger Die! 4.35 avg rating β€” 713 ratings
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White Identity Politics
White Identity Politics 3.89 avg rating β€” 198 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating β€” 115,043 ratings
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Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia 4.49 avg rating β€” 434 ratings
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 4.42 avg rating β€” 7,736 ratings
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Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience 4.47 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating β€” 25,284 ratings
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Antisemitism: Here and Now
Antisemitism: Here and Now 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,147 ratings
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But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies 4.40 avg rating β€” 1,782 ratings
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Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls 4.46 avg rating β€” 560 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating β€” 16,467 ratings
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Pageboy
Pageboy 3.73 avg rating β€” 72,701 ratings
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 4.53 avg rating β€” 1,496 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating β€” 37,881 ratings
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The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War
The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War 3.78 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Moriori: a People Rediscovered
Moriori: a People Rediscovered 4.58 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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Te Puea: A Life
Te Puea: A Life 4.10 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Whina: A biography of Whina Cooper
Whina: A biography of Whina Cooper 4.33 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Death of the Rainbow Warrior
Death of the Rainbow Warrior 3.97 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time 4.14 avg rating β€” 184 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating β€” 115,137 ratings
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution 3.85 avg rating β€” 2,733 ratings
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Dawn Raid
Dawn Raid 3.96 avg rating β€” 666 ratings
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Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State
Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns that Saved New Zealand’s Native Forests
Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns that Saved New Zealand’s Native Forests 3.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Years of the pooh-bah : a Cook Islands history
Years of the pooh-bah : a Cook Islands history really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Tangata Whenua: A History
Tangata Whenua: A History 4.47 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand
Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating β€” 109,933 ratings
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Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America 4.27 avg rating β€” 56,640 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β€” 189,236 ratings
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I Speak of Freedom
I Speak of Freedom 4.28 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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Lost in the Cockpit Country
Lost in the Cockpit Country
by: Billy Elm
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture 4.31 avg rating β€” 31,743 ratings
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'I Don't Believe in Murder': Standing up for peace in World War I Canterbury
'I Don't Believe in Murder': Standing up for peace in World War I Canterbury really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships 4.10 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth 4.08 avg rating β€” 101,260 ratings
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Healing the Shame that Binds You
Healing the Shame that Binds You 4.09 avg rating β€” 11,857 ratings
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 4.45 avg rating β€” 12,301 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating β€” 27,175 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,079 ratings
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We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom 4.53 avg rating β€” 6,311 ratings
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Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6)
Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6) 4.51 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
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Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory 4.08 avg rating β€” 88 ratings
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The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1
The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1 4.30 avg rating β€” 270 ratings
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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means 4.14 avg rating β€” 1,372 ratings
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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,722 ratings
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide 4.12 avg rating β€” 3,614 ratings
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,671 ratings
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Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews
Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews 4.32 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,174 ratings
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The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life 4.15 avg rating β€” 483 ratings
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The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror 4.34 avg rating β€” 587 ratings
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement 4.58 avg rating β€” 13,957 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating β€” 8,309 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating β€” 144,577 ratings
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Caste Matters
Caste Matters 4.11 avg rating β€” 485 ratings
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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights 4.15 avg rating β€” 400 ratings
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Our Commitment Is to Our Communities: Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners, and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice
Our Commitment Is to Our Communities: Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners, and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice 4.56 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Boots Riley: Tell Homeland Security–We Are the Bomb
Boots Riley: Tell Homeland Security–We Are the Bomb 4.33 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,071 ratings
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Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands 4.25 avg rating β€” 364 ratings
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Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community
Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community 3.39 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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Hrant Dink: An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey
Hrant Dink: An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey 4.69 avg rating β€” 121 ratings